puddle

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
2. (dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
3. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
4. The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.

Verb

1. To form a puddle.
2. To play or splash in a puddle.
3. Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
4. To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
5. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
6. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
7. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
8. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

Concepts

flaque

flaque d’eau

lac

embrouillamini

bourbier

mare d’eau de fonte

gouille

flaque d'eau

faire pipi

pisser

uriner

étendue d’eau

Synonymes

pool

pond

mud puddle

lake

mud

muddle

slosh

mire

pit

piddle

confuse

bemire

silt

roil

take a leak

pee

pass water

slime

relieve oneself

pee-pee

urinate

wee

small pool

pool of water

piss

wee-wee

bog

sludge

muddy

muss

micturate

make water

addle

make

plash

spend a penny

dip

dim

capsule

deep

dabble

baptise

congestion

blear

confound

intermix

hollow

condense

involve

anneal

Traductions

charco

pozzanghera

Pfütze

poça

pozza

Lache

plas

toll

gölet

charco

pozo

bassal

Pfuhl

guazzo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpʌdəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: podel

Hérité de ancien anglais: pudd

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Pudel

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: podel

Appartenant à Hunsrik: Puttel

Appartenant à allemand: Pfudel

Appartenant à allemand: pudeln

In summary

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.